I'm a Libertarian living in Humboldt County, CA. I've lived here in Eureka since 1973 and joined the Libertarian Party in 1992. This blog will mostly focus on local political issues, but I may stray into state and national issues as well, when I can't help myself. Please post your comments by clicking on the "comments" link at the bottom of each post. Although I do moderate comments, you need not be a registered user to post them.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Artificial Reefs

That's a fun idea that's actually been around for a while: Artificial reefs from sunken ships. I wonder how many people supporting this idea are against offshore drilling- oil rigs being another artificial structure that fish seem to like?

That's kind of like wondering how many people screaming about new cell phone towers are the same ones that think government should provide wireless networks to everybody.

3 Comments:

That would be a great idea. As far as offshore drilling, Off shore rigs enhance the fishery and have an impeccable safety record both off the West Coast and in the Gulf- hurricanes and all. Unfortunately neither will ever even be considered as far as pros and cons.

The Travel Channel producers, fashionably greenish in their views... read... a book titled The Helldiver's Rodeo. The book described an undersea panorama that (if true) could make an interesting show for the network, they concluded, while still scoffing.

They scoffed as we rode in from the airport. They scoffed over raw oysters, grilled redfish and seafood gumbo that night. More scoffing through the Hurricanes at Pat O'Brien's. They scoffed even while suiting up in dive gear and checking the cameras as we tied up to an oil platform 20 miles in the Gulf.

But they came out of the water bug-eyed and indeed produced and broadcast a program showcasing a panorama that turned on its head every environmental superstition against offshore oil drilling....

The panorama of marine life around an offshore oil platform staggers anyone who puts on goggles and takes a peek, even (especially!) the most worldly scuba divers. Here's a video peek at this seafood bonanza....